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    Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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    There's a company in China that allows you to hire someone to stand in line for you for $3-$5 an hour.
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    It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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    In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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    Coke-Powered Phone
    Coke-Powered Phone
    Daizi Zheng, a Chinese designer, made a Coca-Cola powered cell phone. She designed a battery that uses enzymes to generate electricity from the carbs.
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    In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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    Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.
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    Hu Xiaoyun
    Hu Xiaoyun
    After being dumped for being poor by his ex-girlfriend seven years prior, a Chinese man spent $40,000 booking four entire IMAX cinemas for first-day showings of Transformers 4 - just to prove her wrong.
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